- Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
- Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering.
- A soft answer turns away wrath,
But a harsh word stirs up anger. - Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
- Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones. - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
- You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
- Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother’s way.
- Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.
- Let brotherly love continue. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.
- Thus says the Lord of hosts:
‘Execute true justice,
Show mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’ - Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.
For His anger is but for a moment,
His favor is for life;
Weeping may endure for a night,
But joy comes in the morning. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.Next verse!With image